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Helios Reviews

Members of the Eclipse community are invited to write a review of the Eclipse projects being released as part of Helios and to publish the
review on a blog, newsgroup or portal. Following is a list of links to the
reviews that have been submitted to the blogathon.

Going through the Helios Reviews I see that
a number of bloggers have said good things about the new features in
JDT :) If you have not yet seen the new features of JDT then check
out the 10 minute demo I recorded last month.

First of all bravo! for the effort
especially when i read these lines... from IBM site.. "Helios is the
simultaneous release of 39 Eclipse projects. In terms of statistics,
the Helios release includes 33 million lines of code developed by
about 500 Eclipse.org committers from 44 companies."

Helios has been out for over a month
– and we have been using it. Yes, we are a little biased, but
when you are working with and leading teams of 10+ developers you
need to be practical. There are a number of things that Eclipse does
really well, but there are a few things that we would like to see
better.

For development at work, I downloaded and
started using Eclipse Helios packaged for J2EE development, wanting
to see what I could stumble upon as new or different, and whether I
could recommend it to the rest of my team yet without having to
describe a whole lot of changes to our practices.

Eclipse Helios is a release, but it's also
a complete development cycle in a global and distributed team of
commiters. Since I choose 3 features I especially liked in Helios
this kept bugging me: what is Helios to me? Helios will have its
place in my memory, not the bits themselves but good things we had
as a community.

A month ago the Eclipse 3.6 shipped –
again on time. This is another evolutionary release – most
components are binary compatible with the older ones, so the time of
the migration was roughly equal to the download. All old favorites,
such as Mylyn, EMF, etc. are updated, a lot of features were added,
that makes development much easier. Some new components are also
added, making a strong basis of the Eclipse eco-system.

Eclipse 3.6, aka Helios, was released about
a month ago. It has become a tradition: this is the time I highlight
some of my favorite hidden features in the new release. I focus my
article on features which are less obvious, off the beaten path.
Features you might not be familiar with if you didn't take the time
to read the "new and noteworthy" for this release.

The latest Eclipse came out on June 23,
2010, and per usual, I'm writing a review to collect a T-shirt in
this year's blogathon. The first thing to notice, before even
downloading it, there are a couple more packages available.

In this post I’m going to share our
experience migrating our RCP product Bonita Open Solution from an
Eclipse 3.5.1 to 3.6.0 based platform. There were some issues but we
were successful. I will also offer some tips so you can avoid some
mistakes and save migration time.

First of all, if you are using any version
of Eclipse (3.1-3.6) and are migrating to Sun/Oracle JDK update 21,
be wary of this bug: 319514. Basically, Eclipse checks if the VM is
Sun to add a "PermSize" flag, but now it is renamed to Oracle and
the check no longer works.

Many good reviews already cover all the
nice new features that are in Eclipse Helios, so I’m going to
show you a three annoyances that have been bothering me for years
and are still not fixed in Helios. And these aren’t things
like the high memory consumption or the sluggish interface.

I wanted to write a post about the new
Eclipse Helios, which was just released to participate in the Helios
Blogathon. So, on my personal machine, I installed the newest JDK
(1.6u21), the new eclipse, started it up, tried to work with it and
after a few seconds.... It just hangs!

Eclipse has always been my preferred IDE
for application design and development. There have always been my
interest in new developments going behind the scenes on eclipse
evolution. The latest version of Eclipse, named as Helios, has been
released this year on June 23, named as Eclipse Helios.

My neighbor should have been back from
Malaysia this summer, but the IT project that's behind his sojourn
in these exotic spheres is delayed. The still indefinitely vacant
apartment reminds me of how nice my life is. And I’m not
referring to the silence next-door, but to the fact that I, as an
Eclipse developer, can rely on the 5th Eclipse Release Train
arriving on time. For trains, and especially for software projects,
this is not yet self-evident even in the year 2010.

No more remembering eclipse plugins' url. I
know how difficult it is to find the url of each eclipse plugin and
install it via ‘Install New Software’. Especially if you
are behind office firewall you cannot install those plugins. Eclipse
Helios has resolved those problems introducing ‘Eclipse
MarketPlace’.

The Riena project team has just released
the Riena platform 2.0 as part of Eclipse Helios. Thanks and
congratulations to everyone who helped manage this Eclipse Release
out the door in high quality and on time again! To dive into
Riena’s detailed technical release notes, you may hop to Riena
New And Noteworthy. With this post I present a rough overview of new
and optimized features.

Now that the entire world noticed that I
don't know even one thing about soccer and I'm even trying to cheat,
I should get back in sharing what I understand instead of those
silly forecasts. Helios has been out for a little while now, the
mediatic storm is pretty much gone and it's a good time for me to
have a look back.

Helios is the God of the Sun. It is also
the codename for the 2010 release of Eclipse, arguably the most
popular development environment for java programming language. As a
user of Eclipse for the last six years of so, I did not lose time
downloading Helios once it became publicly available.

Helios has been released. This simultaneous
release includes more projects but many people still regard Eclipse
as Java IDE. So in this post, I want to share the most important JDT
improvements that I think will be loved by most Java developers.

Last week Eclipse foundation delivered
their 2010 installment i.e., the 3.6 version of Eclipse code named
Helios. It was the largest release from Eclipse community so far as
it involved 39 different project teams & 33 million lines of code
(as per the data available in the official Eclipse web page). Helios
comes with lots of new & interesting features and caters to the
varying needs of the Software Development community.

Helios comes with an OSGi console that is
accessible from the GUI directly. This reminded me of the existence
of an API to add custom commands to the console. I found this to be
a simple and powerful concept; yet I perceive this feature to be
rarely used in practice.

Eclipse 3.6, codenamed Helios has just
arrived. 490 Eclipse contributors have worked on this release, which
includes more than 100 that are independent (as opposed to 900
active contributors) and 44 companies that were involved and
collaborate on this open source project.

Yesterday's release of Helios shows how
Java developers are now truly spoilt for choice when it comes to
IDEs. Following on the NetBeans 6.9 release last week, Eclipse 3.6
is the most complete release so far, incorporating 39 projects.

The fact that e4, the next generation of
Eclipse, is substantially based on EMF shows the importance of
modeling within the Eclipse project. Therefore, it is not surprising
that the majority of the 39 participating projects in Helios come
from the Eclipse Modeling Top-Level-Project. Let´s take a
closer look at some of the more important new features.

A year old wait is over. Helios is out in
the wild. Today morning, I downloaded Helios. Oops, my friend of
eclipse download link got stuck. I went to the download link for the
common public - eclipse.org/downloads. There goes the Helios
Modeling Package.

The sun has just set on Galileo, the
previous version of the Eclipse IDE, and risen on Helios the latest
version. It promises to be more stable, but its help and
documentation are a big disappointment.

With today's release of Helios (Eclipse
3.6), the developers of EGit and JGit have finalized (a week early)
version 0.8.4 for the Eclipse platform update. The incubating Git
support in Eclipse was ranked #2 among new 3.6 platform additions by
developer Ian Bull.

It is with great pleasure that I would like
to announce the release of EclipseLink 2.1.0 (Helios). This release
of brings a number of exciting features many of which were voted on,
and chosen by the community.

BIRT 2.6 is now available and with this
release many improvements and new features are available. Charting
with BIRT has been improved adding support for a Radar/Polar chart
type, palette hash patterns, better JPG quality, and improved SVG to
PDF support.

Helios is the fifth so-called simultaneous
release of the Eclipse Foundation. Following Callisto, Europa,
Ganymede and Galileo, the Helios release comprises 39 different
Eclipse projects – and like every year, both the Eclipse
Platform and the Java Development Tools (JDT) are back in updated
versions. Let's dive into and have a look at what's new in JDT.

The Eclipse foundation today announced the
release of Eclipse Helios, bringing 39 different projects to the
same station for the seventh annual release train. The Eclipse
projects are managed in an agile fashion, releasing seven milestone
builds throughout the year and then a number of release candidates
in the weeks leading up to June each year. Instead of varying the
delivery dates, the Eclipse projects vary the content in each
milestone whilst focussing on the quality and backward
compatibility.

Two weeks ago I asked you to think about
high quality software that has been consistently delivered on-time.
Think about software that is used by millions of people world-wide,
built by hundreds of developers, free to use and open to everybody
and anybody. Think about software that spans domains, runs on the
smallest of devices and powers the worlds largest enterprises.

Today the Eclipse development team has
promised to collect the first release candidate of the new version
of this wonderful IDE and platform. Almost a year ago, I took the
trouble to write about what's new in Eclipse Galileo, and now I'll
tell you about the new version - Eclipse Helios.

It's that time again! The annual updating
of numerous Eclipse platform projects and the classic IDE that made
it ubiquitous. Eclipse 3.6 "Helios" is more than just a new IDE
release, this year it consists of 39 Eclipse projects from SOA
tooling, to a 'marketplace' client for Eclipse plugins, to a
platform for mobile development.

Only 1 more day until Eclipse Helios is
release and we are down to my Top 2 features. Over the life of
Eclipse (Jeff McAffer tells me that he’s been working on
Eclipse since 1999) a lot has changed. Eclipse started its life
inside OTI/IBM. In November 2001 the Eclipse Consortium was
announced and Eclipse was released as ‘Open Source’. For
the next few years Eclipse grew, but was still mostly supported by a
few large companies.

Some time ago I have downloaded the JEE
edition of the Eclipse Helios RC4. And here comes a review in order
to win a Helios t-shirt. I'll start with bugs I found till now. I
didn't find many. Continue with features I still miss, and try to
end with some positive note about the features I liked.

Well here we are, it’s release week.
Eclipse 3.6 — Helios — will be available on Wednesday
June 23rd. It also means that I’m into my Top 3 features for
this years release. For the past 7 days I’ve been presenting
some of the New and Noteworthy features of this years release.

Last year around the same time I blogged
about new upcoming release of Eclipse Galileo. An year has passed
since then and Eclipse is back again with new version called Helios
which will be released on June 23rd. Eclipse as Wayne Beaton says is
more than just an IDE. Eclipse initially may have started off as an
IDE, but today Eclipse has evolved into a platform.

As most of you know, Eclipse Helios will be
released next week. For regular readers of my blog (and
PlanetEclipse.org), you know that I’ve been counting down some
of the new features available in this release. During this series I
have received comments (both in the comment fields, and on places
like twitter) that essentially read: I really like Eclipse except it
doesn’t have an editor for XYZ. Or, when I get the following
package, it has feature ABC which I don’t want. Obviously we
can’t please all the people all of the time.

There was a recent post by Wayne about how
Eclipse is an IDE Platform. For all practical purposes, that is the
way that I use it. But what is really awesome about Eclipse as an
IDE platform is that it is an IDE platform that just keeps
improving.

The official Helios release is less than 1
week away, and we are now into the Top 5 Features that I’m
most excited about. Over the past week I’ve been highlighting
some of upcoming features of the Eclipse Helios release. These
features include: improvements to the Java Development Tools,
Plug-in Development Environment, API Tools and the Eclipse Platform.
Number 5 on my Top 10 List is: p2 API and the b3 Aggregator.

As the Eclipse Helios Release is around the
corner I'll use the chance to describe some nice odds and ends in
Xtext 1.0. One of which is a newly introduced API that allows to
customize the default messages for parse errors and linking
diagnostics.

There are three large groups of artifacts
that play a key role while writing software. There are the tools you
use, the code you write and the libraries you depend on. There is a
large body of research studying the cognitive support provided by
software development tools. There is also a number of tool centric
development models. Facilities like Yoxos and the Eclipse Market
Place help you manage these tool chains.

I was just going through the latest build
of Helios (eclipse 3.6) and thought a sharing of some new features
is in order. For those who haven't heard what Helios is about, I
suggest you go through the eclipse helios homepage.

As Eclipse committers, we spend lots of
time emphasizing that Eclipse is not just an Integrated Development
Environment. Eclipse is a framework, a tooling platform, a
collection of run-time technologies, an eco-system, etc…
However, at the end of the day, an IDE is the primary use of Eclipse
for many people.

The Eclipse Helios simultaneous release of
39 Eclipse projects and 33 million lines of code showcases the
diversity and innovation going on inside the Eclipse ecosystem. Get
an overview of several projects, along with resources to find out
more information.

The Eclipse 3.6 (Helios) release is nearing
and as always its pretty exciting. The 3.x releases have all added a
lot of features which make Java and J2EE development much more
easier, exciting and fun. So I decided to try it out and write about
some of the new features it has. I primarily use Eclipse for J2EE so
my review is more focussed on JDT and Java related features.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about
what defines an Eclipse project? Not in the literal sense (a project
hosted at eclipse.org that follows the EDP), but rather, what
technical qualities do all Eclipse projects share.

Eclipse Helios is the annual release of
Eclipse projects in 2010; this year 39 projects are part of the
release. And here is my first contribution to the Helios Blogathon,
more details on the Blogathon can be found here. Helios is the code
name for this year collecting Eclipse release. The idea of such a
release is to be simultaneously release a large quantity of eclipse
sub projects at the same time. This gives the user an Eclipse
platform with well-coordinated projects, which works together.

Yesterday I asked you to think about
high-quality software that has been consistently delivered on-time
for eight straight years. To make this quiz more challenging, this
software should be installed on millions of users’ desktops.

In many hotels there is no 13th floor, let
alone a room with number 13. Everyone knows that there are 13 steps
leading up to the gallows and if you suffer from
friggatriskaidekaphobia then you don't like Friday the 13th.